May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... Moon and material for shielding the inhabitants and their equipment, where the absence of an atmosphere and magnetic field demands protection from radiation exposure, temperature extremes, meteorite impact and lunar dust. The concept of colonising...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
...is perpendicular to the plane, consistent with a scenario where the outflow is dragging the field along with it. Magnetic field Do these magnetic field lines extend forever, channelling matter into intergalactic space, or do they turn over, directing...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... can be created from a current loop – a simple loop of wire with a current flowing through it creates a magnetic field. The problem is that the magnetic field needed for this technology to work has to be big, kilometres of radius big, not metres, and...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... Earth’s high latitudes to be more slowly redistributed. We are left to contemplate the effects of a similar event with a leading magnetic field anti-aligned for a long interval. It seems safe to say that the resulting geomagnetic storm would have...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
... repelled and sent back out into space, the ions are being trapped in Jupiter’s magnetic field. When this happens the magnetic field gets compressed, which in turn heats up the ions. This then triggers a phenomenon called electromagnetic...
11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
... pouring out from the Sun. This shield, or rather magnetic field as we know it by, also means that our planet comes...over three times as fast as it usually does. Without the magnetic field, our little world would most likely resemble that of our ...
